FunkedUp Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 47 minutes ago, NoCalMike said: These "straight pride" parades are about celebrating sexual orientation about as much as the Tea Party was actually about taxes. Those are just fronts for the rest of their extremist views oh and the racism/sexism/bigotry/homophobia. That's as paranoid and delusional as suggesting the Woman's March was a front for anti-semitism. Oh. Nevermind. Let me get my pitchfork, milkshake and baclava. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No Excuses Posted July 26, 2019 Author Share Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) 5 minutes ago, FunkedUp said: That's as paranoid and delusional as suggesting the Woman's March was a front for anti-semitism. Oh. Nevermind. Let me get my pitchfork, milkshake and baclava. You're right. The "straight pride" parade is totally a serious event about celebrating and bringing attention to issues facing the heterosexual community. Just like "Unite the Right" wasn't really a front for neo-nazi douches, but really was about "uniting the right". 😂 Edited July 26, 2019 by No Excuses 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 7 minutes ago, FunkedUp said: That's as paranoid and delusional as suggesting the Woman's March was a front for anti-semitism. Oh. Nevermind. Let me get my pitchfork, milkshake and baclava. Don't forget your Pokemon cards 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Larry said: But they have the right. (Or the far right, as the case may be.) What's needed is some kind of creatively appropriate response. Glitter bombs? Hug stations? Hot women in bikinis holding signs that say "NOPE" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larry Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 6 minutes ago, PleaseBlitz said: Hot women in bikinis holding signs that say "NOPE" These are Trump's people. "NOPE" might not be enough. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 22 minutes ago, No Excuses said: You're right. The "straight pride" parade is totally a serious event about celebrating and bringing attention to issues facing the heterosexual community. Just like "Unite the Right" wasn't really a front for neo-nazi douches, but really was about "uniting the right". 😂 There were fine people in both sides. That march was about preserving history in the only way we know how, statues. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 i'm posting most of the entire piece (topic pic at bottom of post, there's a related clip at the link) https://www.cbsnews.com/news/armed-students-emmett-till-sign-ole-miss-students-suspended-by-frat-after-posing-with-guns/ Quote A photograph of three University of Mississippi students posing with guns beside a bullet-pocked and oft-vandalized historic marker to lynching victim Emmett Till has sparked a possible federal investigation and suspensions of the three by their fraternity. The Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting first published a story about it Thursday, saying the image had circulated on the men's social media accounts, CBS affiliate WJTV reports. However, U.S. Attorney Chad Lamar told the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting that federal prosecutors are examining the case. Lamar did not respond to repeated emails and phone calls from The Associated Press seeking comment. Guajardo called the image "offensive and hurtful" but said the university hasn't disciplined the students because the off-campus picture wasn't part of a university event. Jesse Lyons, assistant executive director of the Kappa Alpha Order's national office in Lexington, Virginia, said the Ole Miss chapter suspended the three men pictured after leaders learned of the photo Tuesday. The fraternity has long been associated with Old South and Confederate imagery. Although much of that imagery has been suppressed in recent years, the group still claims Confederate Robert E. Lee as its spiritual founder. Lyons said that history has nothing to do with the photo. "The making of the photo was unrelated to any event or activity of the chapter. It is inappropriate, insensitive, and unacceptable. It does not represent our Kappa Alpha Order," Lyons wrote in an email. The fraternity and university say they're working together. Guajardo said Ole Miss is "ready to assist the fraternity with educational opportunities for those members and the chapter." It's unclear whether the students actually fired at the sign or when the picture was taken. It shows two students standing with guns and a third unarmed student kneeling in tall grass at night, lit by what appear to be the headlights of a vehicle. It's unclear who took the photograph. The image strikes at what remains one of the nation's most wrenching civil rights cases, decades after Till was slain in 1955. The African American 14-year-old was visiting relatives in the Mississippi Delta when he was kidnapped from a relative's home after an encounter with a white woman at a country store. He was tortured and later shot, with his body found weighted down by a cotton gin fan in the Tallahatchie River. His mother insisted on an open-casket funeral in Chicago, letting people see her son's mutilated corpse and electrifying public opinion. An all-white jury in Mississippi acquitted two white men in the crime. Like Till himself, the markers placed by the Emmett Till Memorial Commission have been shattered by violence. The marker in the photograph, at the remote spot where Till's body was recovered, was the third to stand there after two earlier markers were destroyed by vandals. Last year, the sign was vandalized just 35 days after being replaced, and images of the sign went viral in 2016 after it was riddled with more than 40 bullet holes. Patrick Weems, the commission's executive director, said the sign was shot sometime in summer 2018 and again in early fall 2018. "For me, it is just as sacrilegious as if I took the United States flag and shot it up with bullet holes," commission member Jessie Jaymes said in a video produced by the commission in response to the vandalism. "The hearts of some men never change. They mark their territory with bullet holes." Weems said the sign was removed last week after the center learned news of the picture was likely to emerge. He said officials feared more attention and vandalism. Weems said the commission hasn't been contacted by the university or federal officials. He said the commission plans a fourth marker that's made of hardened steel, more resistant to bullets. He said the commission is also negotiating a lease for 2 acres (0.8 hectares) at the river's edge for a fuller memorial site. "We already have a new sign on its way," Weems said. Susan Glisson, who has helped advise the commission on how to memorialize Till in a way that would further healing and justice, said the repeated vandalism is an attempt to blot out the power of the story of what happened to Till, instead upholding a white-dominated social order. "It's easier to cancel out that story for some people than it is to engage with the truth," said Glisson, co-founder and partner in Sustainable Equity, a consulting firm that works in community building. Glisson was the founding director of the William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation when it was housed at Ole Miss. In an earlier case, two students were convicted of federal crimes after draping a noose around the neck of the university's statue of James Meredith in 2014. Meredith integrated Ole Miss in 1962 amid rioting that was suppressed by federal troops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 (edited) I wish I could say I was shocked. Not really. Edited July 26, 2019 by Mr. Sinister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Evil Genius Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 3 hours ago, FunkedUp said: That's as paranoid and delusional as suggesting the Woman's March was a front for anti-semitism. Oh. Nevermind. Let me get my pitchfork, milkshake and baclava. I don't get the reference to improperly spelled pastry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Evil Genius Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Re: Emmett Till sign...KA at WVU was full of these jackasses. Not surprised it was them, of all fraternities at Ole Miss. They allegedly have roots back to Robert E. Lee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 1 hour ago, The Evil Genius said: I don't get the reference to improperly spelled pastry. He thinks it’s an ethnic Jewish dish?* *Turkish/Greek as far as I know... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 Maybe they should make the sign out of tannerite coated with glass or something similar that will send shrapnel at whoever shoots at it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PleaseBlitz Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 5 minutes ago, China said: Maybe they should make the sign out of tannerite coated with glass or something similar that will send shrapnel at whoever shoots at it. LOL. I was just thinking about booby trapping it, but they probably want non-racists to come check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 26, 2019 Share Posted July 26, 2019 1 minute ago, PleaseBlitz said: LOL. I was just thinking about booby trapping it, but they probably want non-racists to come check it out. This video comes to mind when I was thinking of that... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 Charlottesville Lawyers Dump Nazi Clients One won’t pay his legal bills and keeps threatening attorneys. The other is on the run. These two white supremacists are so awful, their own lawyers are dumping them. Chris “The Crying Nazi” Cantwell and Robert “Azzmador” Ray were two prominent marchers during 2017’s deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Since then, the pair have been named in a sprawling lawsuit against many of the rally’s key players. Their lawyers also represent a host of Klansmen and neo-Nazis in the lawsuit. But in a Thursday filing, those lawyers quit on Cantwell and Ray, claiming the two were impossible to work with. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngestson Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 22 hours ago, Mr. Sinister said: I wish I could say I was shocked. Not really. An acquaintance of mine honestly thinks the only issue is if these guys were or were not the ones who shot the sign. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 6 hours ago, youngestson said: An acquaintance of mine honestly thinks the only issue is if these guys were or were not the ones who shot the sign. from a legal standpoint that would be the only issue. most of us take issue with things beyond that limited aspect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PokerPacker Posted July 27, 2019 Share Posted July 27, 2019 On 7/26/2019 at 4:49 PM, China said: This video comes to mind when I was thinking of that... Brings me back to when we blew a few limbs off of some trees at a friend's farmhouse my means of shooting tannerite jars nestled in them. Good times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jumbo Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 31 minutes ago, twa said: most of us take issue with things beyond that limited aspect. while what they did was worth rearranging their sensory input imo, i'd also buffet 'em about just for that hair and one looked pretty short Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youngestson Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 (edited) 12 hours ago, twa said: from a legal standpoint that would be the only issue. most of us take issue with things beyond that limited aspect. There is a symbolism which I can explain if you wish. Edit: Never mind. Edited July 28, 2019 by youngestson Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twa Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 1 minute ago, youngestson said: There is a symbolism which I can explain if you wish. no need ,that was the things beyond I mentioned. Once you get into symbolism and such it becomes more of a Rorschach test Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted July 28, 2019 Share Posted July 28, 2019 New Jersey stores pull controversial black dolls designed for abuse from shelves BAYONNE, New Jersey -- Controversial black rag dolls that are designed to be abused were pulled from shelves in three New Jersey stores after customers and one state lawmaker called them offensive. Instructions on the "Feel Better Doll" tell customers to grab it firmly by the legs, find a wall, and slam the doll against it. "Don't forget to yell, 'I FEEL GOOD, I FEEL GOOD,'" a patch on the doll's stomach reads. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kosher Ham Posted July 29, 2019 Share Posted July 29, 2019 Just make it a blue doll racism irritates me more than most things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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